{"id":101,"date":"2014-02-18T18:38:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T18:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecpr.org.uk\/?page_id=101"},"modified":"2023-10-20T08:47:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T08:47:10","slug":"performance-research-books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thecpr.org.uk\/publications\/performance-research-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Performance Research Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Performance Research Books publishes generously illustrated and finely designed books that present documentation and analysis of contemporary performance practice \u2013 through the work of individual artists, companies and ensembles. Each publication combines texts, scores and critical reflection on a distinctive body of work, together with scholarly and theoretical analysis of the practice, the voices of practitioners, the views of the makers and the evidence of the work.<\/p>\n

Performance Research Books commissions work that stems from a scholarly engagement with artist-led research and practice. Each publication seeks a lively conversation between theory and practice, and the work is revealed and illuminated through dialogue and discourse exploring a variety of formats: interviews, photo-essays, artworks, performance texts, scenographic designs,scores, notes and critical analysis.<\/p>\n

Performance Research Books developed as an independent venture of Performance Research<\/em>, a specialist journal founded in 1996 and published eight times annually (from 2017) that aims to promote a dynamic interchange between scholarship and practice in the expanding field of performance. Interdisciplinary in vision and international in scope, its emphasis is on contemporary performance arts within changing cultures. Performance Research Books follows and expands the policy of the journal, but opens into publishing monographs, book works and singular works on distinctive practice and theory.<\/p>\n

Performance Research Books exists as an imprint of ARC, a division of the Centre for Performance Research (CPR), which is a multifaceted theatre organization located in Wales that works nationally and internationally. CPR produces innovative performance work. It arranges workshops, conferences, lectures and masterclasses (for the professional and the amateur); curates and produces festivals, expositions and exchanges with theatre companies from around the world; and publishes and distributes theatre books.<\/p>\n

Inside Performance Practice<\/span><\/h4>\n

The books of the Inside Performance Practice<\/em> series will focus upon the work, process and aesthetic strategies of specific companies, ensembles and individual artists.<\/p>\n

Current Catalogue:<\/span><\/h5>\n

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In Praise of Sideways: Storytelling Journeys of the Ruth Kanner Theatre Grop<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Edited by Adi Chawin and Richard Gough\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

ISBN 978-1-906499-14-3, published in 2023<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

RRP: \u00a339.50<\/strong><\/span>, CPR Price: \u00a335.00<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Changing Places: Drama Box and the Politics of Space<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Edited by Richard Gough and Charlene Rajendran<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

ISBN 978-1-906499-11-2, published in 2022<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

RRP: \u00a335.00<\/strong><\/span>, CPR Price: \u00a330.00<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Okada Toshiki & Japanese Theatre<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Edited by Peter Eckersell, Barbara Geilhorn, Andreas Regelsberger and Cody Poulton<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

ISBN 978-1-906499-12-9, published in 2021<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

RRP: \u00a333.<\/strong><\/span>50, CPR Price: \u00a328.00<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Marrugeku: Telling that story<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Edited by Helen Gilbert, Dalisa Pigram and Rachael Swain<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

ISBN 978-1-906499-09-9, published in 2021<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

RRP: \u00a333.<\/strong><\/span>50, CPR Price: \u00a328.00<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Machine Ma<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>de Silence. The Art of Kris Verdonck<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Edited by Peter Eckersall\u00a0 and Kristof van Baarle\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

ISBN 978-1-906499-07-5, published in 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

RRP: \u00a333.50, CPR Price: \u00a328.00<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Lola Arias: Re-enacting Life<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Edited by Jean Graham-Jones<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

ISBN 978-1-906499-05-1, published in 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

RRP: \u00a333.50, CPR Price: \u00a328.00<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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“We’re People Who Do Shows”: Back to Back Theatre – \u00a0Performance, Politics, Visibility<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Edited by Helena Grehan and Peter Eckersall<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

ISBN 978-1-906499-03-7, published in 2013<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

RRP: \u00a333.50, CPR Price: \u00a328.00<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Good Luck Everybody: Lone Twin – \u00a0Journeys, Performances, Conversations<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Edited by Carl Lavery and David Williams<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

ISBN 978-1-906499-02-0, Published in 2011<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

RRP: \u00a333.50, CPR Price: \u00a328.00<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Thinking Through Performance<\/span><\/h4>\n

Engaging with and advancing new thinking across performance forms and a variety of theatre practices and companies. Thinking Through Performance<\/em> will enable, through translation, emerging and ground-breaking critical theory about performance, otherwise inaccessible to an English speaking readership.<\/p>\n

Current Catalogue:<\/span><\/h5>\n

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Blind Spot: Staring down the void<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Edited by Ric Allsopp and Karen Kipphoff<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

ISBN 978-1-906499-08-2, published in 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

RRP: \u00a365.00, CPR Price: \u00a345.00<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Performing Poland. Rethinking histories and theatres<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

By Dariusz Kosinski<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\n Trans. Paul Vickers<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

ISBN 978-1-906499-06-8, published in 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

RRP: \u00a333.50, CPR Price: \u00a328.00<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Performing Poland<\/em>\u00a0by Dariusz Kosi\u0144ski is a fascinating synthesis of the history of Polish theatre from the tenth century to the present day. In a lavishly illustrated book, the author not only takes a look at theatrical texts and works, but also describes a culture of the performative that includes ritual, ceremony and public manifestation.<\/p>\n

In five parallel stories the book celebrates a colourful and multi-faceted depiction of Polish national culture and identity: \u2018The Theatre of Festivities\u2019 describes folk, religious and contemporary public holidays that are inscribed into the lives of individuals and society; \u2018A Theatre of Fundamental Questions\u2019 reconstructs the special Polish tradition of \u2018sacred theatre\u2019; \u2018National Theatre\u2019 recounts the story of national identity, which in Poland is strongly influenced by theatre; the relationship between theatre, politics and power is discussed in \u2018Political Theatre: Between ceremony and protest\u2019; and the conclusion, \u2018The Theatre of the Cultural Metropolis\u2019, comprises urban scenes and the history of artistic theatre from the \u2018salon culture\u2019 of the nineteenth century to the present \u2018theatre of crisis\u2019.<\/p>\n

The English translation, which follows those from Polish into German, Chinese and Russian, is based on texts newly revised and updated by the author. The English version is a co-production between Performance Research Books and Instytut Teatralny im. Zbigniewa Raszewskiego.<\/p>\n

Professor Kosi\u0144ski\u2019s comprehensive book is a remarkable achievement that brings the multiple histories of Polish theatre alive with a very contemporary and innovative perspective. This vital text for non-Polish speakers ranges from street demonstrations to theatre events, giving insights into why performance in Poland has stood firmly centre stage, across the world and not just in Europe<\/em>.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2014Professor Paul Allain, University of Kent<\/p>\n

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Worlds, Bodies, Matters: Theatre of the Late Twentieth Century<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

By Valentina Valentini <\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\n Trans. Thomas Haskell Simpson<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

ISBN 978-1-906499-04-4, published in 2014<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

RRP: \u00a324.99, CPR Price: \u00a323.00<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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What myths nourish today’s theatre? What imaginary worlds does it evoke? What are its recurring stories? What are its visions of the world?<\/p>\n

In this study of late-twentieth-century theatre in Europe and the Americas, Valentina Valentini analyses the changed relations between theatre and contemporary reality, between actors and their characters, and examines new roles demanded of both producers and audiences in the realization of theatrical art. In particular she identifies and traces the decisive influence of visual arts and new media on today’s performance scene, a confluence of artistic practices that, Valentini argues, restores theatre to a privileged space in the panorama of contemporary art and aesthetic reflection.<\/p>\n

\u2018Valentina Valentini explores the sweeping transformations that have redefined traditional notions of text, actor, spectacle and audience. Situating her study at the intersections of theatre and visual arts across the centuries, she is equally at home discussing myth and media, drama and the postdramatic, body and image. The volume is strongly grounded in philosophical and theatrical perspectives and shaped by considerable knowledge of multiple art forms and art practices<\/em>.\u2019 – Bonnie Marranca, Editor, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art<\/em><\/p>\n

Engaging Performance Materials<\/span><\/h4>\n

This third series will present performance texts, scripts and scenarios as working documents, intended for practical use in the studio, as material for workshops and for staging and presentation, in addition to being of historical and scholarly use.<\/p>\n

Current Catalogue:<\/span><\/h5>\n

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Absolute Rhythm: Works for minor radio<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

By Paul Carter<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
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\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span>ISBN 978-1-906499-10-5, published in 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

RRP: \u00a328.00, CPR Price: \u00a324.00<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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